The weekly sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-06-23
PERSONAL MATTERS.

Bret Harte was very active book agent in
1S49 and 1850.
Col Bob Ingerson always has his thorough
bred dog trotting by his side in New Y FORK
Gen sSicIlles will attend the dedication of
the soldiers monument at New Haven, June
II.
Donald e. Mitchell elk Marvei1 digs
potatoes in his own little garden near New
Haven.
The editor of The Century, Mr.: Richard
Glider, VIII spend most CT the summer at
Marion, Mass.
Mai. RathlJoi.e who has Just been APP
pointed consul general at Paris, is wealthy,
fond Of soci-ty, fine WALTER and speaks
French fiuerily-
Oscar Wilde's latest attempt at literature is
short novel of the blood and thunder
species, entitled Lord Arthur Saville's
Crime; "A tale of Cheiromancy-"
When DR. Holmes consents to give public
reading from his writings he makes use of
private copyr printed in large, clear type and
fastened together in unbound sheets.
At the opening of a dog show Col. Ochil-
tree fiery headed and blandly sarcastic, was
in his element. Il like dogs" said he. THE
more know men the better | like dogs"
Cen Arson G.. McCook, secretary OF
$4,000 a year; he is allowed $500 year for a
horse and wagon and $500 or $1,000 as dis
bursting officer.
DR.. Stainer, the great organist and COM
poser recalls that at the age of Z he was
choir boy at ST. Paurs. Sir Arthur Sullivan
was a choir boy at St. James, and the two
were great chums.
The Institute of International Laws will
probably meet in Heidelberg, Germany, early
III September. The American members are
David Dudley Field, Theodore Dwight Wool
sey ana Francis Wharton.
Rev W. H Il. Murray, who has boated
most of the watercourses of the continent,
has never seen better place for oar or SAIL
for race or cruise. than Lake Champlain,
near Burlington, Vt, between the two great
mountain ranges.
Sir John Macdonald, premier of Canada, is
exceedingly annoyed at the statement which
has been frequently printed i'll newspapers
that he began life bootblack. He says
that while his people were not rich, his
youth had the surroundings of a refined
home, and that his family is of ancient
Scotch descent.
The gold medal Of the Royal Astronomical
Society of Great Britain has again been
awarded to an American. Last year the
award was jointly to Professor Pickering, of
Harvard college, and Professor Pritchard, of
Oxford. This year it was given to Mr. Hill,
of Washington, for his remarkable mathe-
NAUTICAL researches upon the motion of the
moon.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, says that in
stead of cutting Oh the railroad passes of
senators and representatives., has been
done by the interstate commerce law, he
would give them all passes, and compel each
man to travel at least 5000 miles year, in
order to have them learn something about
all parts of the country for which they have
to legslate.
Gen William F. Rogers is the possessor of
a stained glass portrait of George Washing
ton, which was made in China seventy years
ago, when the art was almost unknown in
this country. The portrait is by Sully, after
Stewards celebrated painting, and is life size.
1t has been in the Rogers family for sixty
years, and is one of the half dozen of its kind
in the world.
Thomas Nichols, who was at one time pri-
vate secretary to President Garfield, is at
tempting to form a company for the con-
struction of tricycle. railroad. The cars
are to be forty-six inches wide and are to run
on a single track suspended above existing
railroad tracks. Mr. Nichols claims that a
speed of 220 miles an hour can thus be at
tained and that the journey from New York
to San Francisco can be made in a day. He
will probably form a combination with the
Keelv motor man.
Ex-senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, who has
been one of the most extreme bon vivantS in
Washington, has become a convert of 'the
starvation cure" He is sustaining life and
reducing his superluous flesh on three spoon
fuls day of Il mysterious liquid now max
ing a sensation at the capital. The liquid
seems to possess the properties Succi claims
for his elixir. At all events, Senator Pome-
roy, who is 20 years of age, has tasted for
twenty days, and says he never felt so well in
his ife.-New York World
When Col John Hay is asked what de-
cidedly seems an impertinent question-"Are
you the author of The Bread Winnersr" he
answers with a bland smile: "In general I
have not much to conceal, but this thing is
the secret of six of US who have been accused
by the public of this fagrancy. Now, if five
of us separately confess that we not the
guilty party, it convicts the sixth defendant,
and we have mutually decided to stand by the
author of The Bread Winners in his secret
sin. You see the situatonr' The CORE
spondent of The Baltimore News it when
presented to him the other day.